The House on Widow's Bend

By John Burton

You don't find the house.
Not really.

You think you're driving past it.
Think you're checking on a listing.
Think you're following a dare, a dream, a memory you haven't let go of.
But the truth is simpler.
You're already leaning.

The House on Widow's Bend isn't just haunted, it's hungry.
And it doesn't feed on blood.

It feeds on grief.
On the silence after the argument.
On the memory you rewrote to survive.
On the thing you lost that you never truly buried.

Across six deeply connected stories, spanning a thousand years, this literary horror anthology follows people drawn to the same impossible house a house that knows what you're hiding, and knows exactly when to open its door.

Inside:

A boy wakes to find something sitting on him. Breathing wet rot into his lungs.

A journal tells a child to write his wishes. Then punishes him for dreaming.

A woman prays for peace and hears her dead mother answer. And the voice keeps getting closer.

Lovers are allowed to be happy, just long enough for the house to ruin it.

A sunken freighter returns from the wrong ocean, singing with no mouths.

A lone scavenger crosses a toxic wasteland, only to discover the house still remembers every soul it ever devoured.

This is grief turned into architecture.
Memory shaped like a trap.

Every story sharpens the next.
Every scar pulls tighter.
And by the end, you'll know:

The house doesn't chase.
It waits.
It leans.
And it never forgets the taste of you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GG6K445D
• ISBN13: 9798283512730
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"